Icy Box IB-138SK-B & Maxtor HDD

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Hi

Anyone use one of these?

Was thinking of getting one along with a Maxtor HDD and using Acronis so I can do backups.

Was looking at getting at Seagate FreeAgent Pro 500GB USB2.0/eSATA/Firewire External Hard Drive but after reading some bad reports when used with Vista 64 I think this might be a better solution?

Edit: case is a P182 so should be ok?
 
Hi,
I was looking into external storage last week myself and bought a
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-BT&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=72

Its amazing , will take either sata HD or IDE HD
You can connect to to PC via usb OR it comes with a E-SATA port on the back
along with a adapter plate that fits into the back of you PC and plugs into a
SATA port on your mobo.

As for the one you are looking it it should be fine ( tho the one I pointed out
is far more versitile )
 
Update: Having bought the Icybox IB-138SK-B 3.5" SATA HDD Caddy and the Maxtor Maxtor Diamondmax 22 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache HDD, I think I may have a problem....

The HDD makes a lot of clicking when the pc boots up and sometimes the pc hangs on detecting the drive and sometimes it will boot ok. I have tried it both in the caddy and connected directly to the mobo (ABit IP35 Pro) and the same thing happens so this seems to rule out any problems with the Icybox caddy. I have also tried both set to both SATA speeds.

The first time I used it I thought it maybe because it hadn't be formatted but it has now been partitioned in two 250 Gig drives both of which formatted to NTFS ok.

I guess the best thing is for me to RMA it?? :mad:

btw, the caddy looks nice in the P182 with the matching blue LED although the little fan is a bit on the noisy side.

Edit:

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i got the icybox caddy, its real nice, and you can remove it and put it in pc's which have an icycaddy inside. its just as fast as an internal, so i would recommend it, but if you dont have it on both pc's then something with USB + eSATA would be better imo
 
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